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FFXIII Not Due Until Next Year

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 25, @09:55AM
from the wait-for-the-other-shoe dept.
Role Playing (Games)
IGN translated an article discussing a financials meeting recently held by Final Fantasy creator Square/Enix. According to company president Yoichi Wada, don't expect FFXIII until next year. At least. "'It will still take a bit more time. At the very least, [a release] this fiscal year is definitely out of the question.' Japanese is known for being a pretty vague language, but Wada's words were pretty clear. No FFXIII in Japan until some time after March 2008. Let's hope Square Enix starts the translation before development finishes up." The implication there, of course, is that if we follow the trend from FFXII the U.S. may not see the game until Winter 08, or even early 09.

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  • Wishful thinking

    (Score:5, Informative)
    by BecomingLumberg (949374) on Friday May 25, @10:05AM (#19269303)
    Maybe by then I can afford a PS3 to play it on.

  • Oh no, another year.

    (Score:1)
    by penp (1072374) on Friday May 25, @10:06AM (#19269339)
    And we waited how long for FFVII? I would rather they spend years on a project making it good than just rush it and push out an FMV-centric piece of crap. Bring back the world map!

  • ::shrug::

    (Score:2)
    by Pojut (1027544) on Friday May 25, @10:13AM (#19269433)
    In my opinion, none of the final fantasy's since FF6 have really been worth the time invested anyway...
    (and yes, I have played them all)

    • Re:::shrug::

      (Score:4, Interesting)
      by quarterbrain (958359) on Friday May 25, @10:36AM (#19269761)
      FFVII will always be the last good Final Fantasy in my mind. Even though the cast would change the characters never did, the angsty hero boy, the obnoxious fighter, the cutesy mascot, all there. The outline also got recycled. At some point you will lose access to magic. Your group will get broken up. Somewhere along the way there's a fight you have to lose. No, you didn't beat the last boss, there's someone pulling the strings, and that guy has 15 different forms.

      Now I just kinda wish they'd go away.
      • Re:::shrug:: by dj_tla (Score:1) Friday May 25, @11:28AM
        • Re:::shrug:: by KDR_11k (Score:1) Friday May 25, @04:47PM
          • Re:::shrug:: by SuiteSisterMary (Score:2) Saturday May 26, @12:38PM
    • FF has been a spotty series to me.. by Junta (Score:2) Friday May 25, @10:57AM

  • Well...

    (Score:1)
    by wongn (777209) <nathan DOT random AT gmail DOT com> on Friday May 25, @10:13AM (#19269447)
    (http://www.icicle.f2s.com/site/)
    Did anyone really expect it to be released this year?

  • 2008 or later

    (Score:1)
    by Frostclaw (1006995) on Friday May 25, @10:40AM (#19269849)
    I'd be shocked if it did get a release next year. FFXII too forever it seems. Square likes to polish their games, and why not. Once they release it, I'm sure it will be quite good.

  • Still at the drawing board.

    (Score:4, Funny)
    by Spazntwich (208070) <spazntwichNO@SPAMyahoo.com> on Friday May 25, @11:35AM (#19270673)
    (http://www.ablabla.org/)
    Their biggest developmental hurdle will be choosing how many spikes the main character's hair has, his bust size, and the source of his isolation from society and inexplicable feelings of angst.

    Will his fashion sense be a hodge podge of articles from the pirate era, or the dark ages? Will his plucky love interest be a young queen society won't accept marrying him, or a rags to riches disadvantaged girl?

    Will the airship be powered by magical beads, or fire? These are all important questions the developers must answer before they can even begin work on Final Fantasy 6, no 7, no 8, no 9, no 10, wait. What?

  • off topic

    (Score:1)
    by rubberbandball (1076739) on Friday May 25, @12:10PM (#19271245)
    i would like to see a full 3D "..of mana" (slash FF Adventure) title. i know that it would take away from the design of the Mana series thus far, but those games aren't hugely budgeted like FFs. it would be interesting for square to take the hack and slash genre a little further.. a full 3D reproduction of secret of mana would be amazing, and take a retardedly long time (if you wanted full mastery of the spells and weapons anyway) to play. i have faith that square could make it interesting, unlike untold legends/god of war/baldur's gate dark alliance which were all fun for about 10 minutes (which is about how long it took to beat each of those titles) square would be able to find a cool niche instead of beating more cash out of Aerith's dead corpse.
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  • Good, This Give me Time to...

    (Score:1)
    by Rev Jim (AKA Metal F (1004571) on Friday May 25, @12:45PM (#19271815)
    So I'll have at least two years to play and finish Final Fantasy IV, V, VI, IX, Revenant Wings, and Tactics A2. :D Then other than Crystal Chronicles, Mystic Quest, X2 and Chocobo Fudgepackers, I can claim to have played through and beaten every US released FF title :D

  • And we're surprised?

    (Score:2)
    by 7Prime (871679) on Friday May 25, @03:19PM (#19274361)
    (http://www.ericbarker.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday November 16, @05:05PM)
    I always thought that FF13 was going to be a 2008 release, my biggest surprise is that this is news at all.

    In any case, Final Fantasy, while not dead to me, ha really lost its charm as of late. I mean, I liked FF12 well enough, but then I went on to play Tales of the Abyss, and realized that I was enjoying myself a whole lot more, and found that title to be much more engrossing. FF12 came in a distant fourth this year after Twilight Princess, Okami, and Tales of the Abyss. That's not bad, since all those games were absolutely stunning, but unlike FF6-9, which I believe to be the pinnical of the series, they just don't have that wonderous charm that they once did. FFX was pure crap, as far as I'm concerned. At this point, I'm going to put more faith in Bandai-Namco, Mistwalker, and Gust to make the best jRPGs... I'm also really looking forward to Trusty Bell/Eternal Sonata, even that's Tri-Crescendo, a company I usually dispise.

  • Re:European Ps3 woes

    (Score:2)
    by Echnin (607099) <p3s46f102 AT sneakemail DOT com> on Friday May 25, @12:40PM (#19271713)
    (http://www.exposedworld.net/)
    The European PS3 is crazy considering the price. I'm going to be in Japan for 2 weeks this July, and am considering picking one up, since it costs the same there that a Wii costs where I live. According to Wikipedia it does after all have a universal power supply with a standard IEC connector, so the only problem will be the games...
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